Woody Brown

http://legendarysurfers.com/blog/2008/04/w...-1912-2008.html

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Ah man... one of the all time legends. He had a great innings though at ninety six, fair play to you Woody and may you rest in peace longboardirl/surfing.gif

Can you imagine surfing good sized waves on the boards they had back then??

http://www.nysurfshop.com/LBN422.html Woody Brown

RIP

I saw the movie Surfing For Life for the first time over the weekend and I gotta say that Woody had one heck of a story to tell.
Coming from a very wealthy stock broker family in Wall St. all the doors were open for him to walk right in but Woody hated all that conforming lifestyle so instead he packed his bags and headed for sunny California.
He was always interested in flying and happened upon Lindberg and helped him prep the Spirit Of St. Louis.
He got very involved in gliding and held some world wide records in doing that and after one of those events he had to rush back to where his wife was giving birth to his first son. Sadly his wife died during labour and his whole world fell apart, walkin' the streets throughout the nights and feelin' like he just wanted god to take him now. His brother and his wife were more than delighted to adopt Woody's son as he felt he could not look after himself and especially not a baby and that's where he left everything behind, houses, cars and even his first born and headed for Hawai'i.
Woodie was the man who invented and built the first catamaran and who used to take tourists out for a spin.

It sure was great to see him riding head high waves at eighty eight years of age and then strolling up to the retirement home where he used to do voluntary work and fill the people in there who weren't feelin' the best with the aloha spirit.
As we'd say in Kerry... "He was an aul dote".

amazing what surfing holds for different people. A story like that helps us all realise that what others might call escapism, we know to be something purer and closer to the soul.

Cheers for that Vega, always good to hear someone's story. Nice for Woody to have someone telling his story too.

QUOTE (vegaluca @ April 29, 2008 11:01 am)

I saw the movie Surfing For Life for the first time over the weekend and I gotta say that Woody had one heck of a story to tell.
Coming from a very wealthy stock broker family in Wall St. all the doors were open for him to walk right in but Woody hated all that conforming lifestyle so instead he packed his bags and headed for sunny California.
He was always interested in flying and happened upon Lindberg and helped him prep the Spirit Of St. Louis.
He got very involved in gliding and held some world wide records in doing that and after one of those events he had to rush back to where his wife was giving birth to his first son. Sadly his wife died during labour and his whole world fell apart, walkin' the streets throughout the nights and feelin' like he just wanted god to take him now. His brother and his wife were more than delighted to adopt Woody's son as he felt he could not look after himself and especially not a baby and that's where he left everything behind, houses, cars and even his first born and headed for Hawai'i.
Woodie was the man who invented and built the first catamaran and who used to take tourists out for a spin.

It sure was great to see him riding head high waves at eighty eight years of age and then strolling up to the retirement home where he used to do voluntary work and fill the people in there who weren't feelin' the best with the aloha spirit.
As we'd say in Kerry... "He was an aul dote".

Nicely put vega longboardirl/hang loose.jpg

if your ever undecided about heading out for a session or not, stick that DVD on and then get your arse out and get surfing. Some inspirational stuff on there.

Woody had a great innings. RIP.